Jayne Stokes

Jayne studied at Edinburgh College of Art 1997 -98 and Winchester School of Art
1997 - 98. She was artist in residence at the Grizedale Sculpture Park, Cumbria
during 1997 and was selected for New Contemporaries99, which exhibited at the
Beaconsfield gallery, London and the LIverpool Biennial. In 2007 she was selected
for Art4Aid International Modern Art exhibition in Amsterdam and exhibits her work
regularly in Scotland. She was recently shortlisted for stage 2 of the John Moores Painting Prize 2010 and stage 2 of the Threadneedle prize 2011 and 2012. She was recently awarded the Crinan residency prize by the Royal Glasgow Institute. Jayne lives and works in Glasgow.

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Jayne Stokes

As a painter I am fascinated by our relationship with images, the value we attach to them, their ability to evoke emotion and sense of place. This relationship has changed with the ubiquity of digital technology. I recall the enjoyment of looking at family albums as a child and reflecting on the places I had visited. Now we are more likely to store away endless files electronically after a brief glance. This process is reflected in our increasingly transient relationship with places, as our lives become more busy and less appreciative of our surroundings.I explore the surfaces of the landscape. By rendering the paintings in this way, they have more physical and emotional depth than the source photography; and are more evocative of the landscape. These places are beautiful, stark, fragmented and often devoid of human presence. I use an unusual technique of collaging cut up fragments of personal photographs combined with water based paint.